Monthly Archives: December 2005
The Last Thing I’ll Post About Bush This Week (Maybe)
Posted on December 20, 2005 4 Comments
Not so much a commentary as wryly noted: Look! Bush is up in the polls! He rocks! Look! Bush’s ratings are unchanged since he went on his charm offensive! He still sucks! How nice it is in this holiday season that everyone can find a major poll to fit their mood. Yeah, I’ll definitely be […]
More On That Whole Impeachment Thing
Posted on December 19, 2005 74 Comments
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, some meaty thoughts on whether the president’s wiretap program actually broke the law. The author’s current, “extra-cautious” conclusion: “it seems that the program was probably constitutional but probably violated the federal law known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.” While I bask in my own I-am-not-a-lawyer-ness, I have to confess […]
Outside Sources and Etc.
Posted on December 19, 2005 15 Comments
The Philadelphia City Paper picked up my “Defending Dubya” piece from the other week and printed in their fine alternative weekly, so if you’re in Philadelphia, please do pick it up; if you’re not in Philadelphia (or are in Philly, but just lazy) here’s the online link. Also as a head’s up for Philadelphia area […]
Small Happy Dance
Posted on December 17, 2005 6 Comments
The hardcover of Old Man’s War is #12 on the Amazon SF bestseller list at the moment and #777 in all their books, which is not a bad place for a debut science fiction novel to be more than a year after it first showed up in bookstores. The Ghost Brigades is doing pretty not […]
The Impeach Bush Bandwagon
Posted on December 16, 2005 53 Comments
It’s begun, over here. Apparently, authorizing the NSA to spy on US citizens on US soil may not be entirely legal. For the record: I think we need another impeachment process almost exactly as much as I need to strap a salmon to my scalp and headbutt a grizzly. And oddly enough, I’m feeling a […]
Son & Foe
Posted on December 16, 2005
Those of you who are itchin’ for new reading material of a mordant and/or quirky sort would be well-advised to check out Son and Foe, a new online magazine with an interesting distribution model: It posts material from its editions on its Web site, but not all at once — and it also offers a […]
Son & Foe
Posted on December 16, 2005 1 Comment
Those of you who are itchin’ for new reading material of a mordant and/or quirky sort would be well-advised to check out Son and Foe, a new online magazine with an interesting distribution model: It posts material from its editions on its Web site, but not all at once — and it also offers a […]
Outreach in Action: Gateway Science Fiction
Posted on December 16, 2005 144 Comments
Having bloviated yesterday that current science fiction offers few “open doors” for non-Science Fiction readers to check out the genre, I want to offer interested parties an opportunity to prove me wrong, or at the very least, prove that I’ve wildly overstated the issue. So, consider this your opportunity to suggest Gateway Science Fiction — […]
“Alien Animal Encounters” at Escape Pod
Posted on December 15, 2005 11 Comments
Image: Douglas Triggs Can’t wait until the Synthetic Confusion convention for someone to read my work out loud? Well, then, you shouldn’t have to. The fine folks of Escape Pod have enacted my short story “Alien Animal Encounters” in verbal form and placed it into a convenient podcast package here. Download it and carry with […]
Science Fiction Outreach
Posted on December 15, 2005 76 Comments
A question from the audience: Greg Benford and Darrell Schweitzer have written an article on fantasy overshadowing science fiction and what that means to society. Rather than bias you with my opinion, I would like to hear yours since you’re a rising SF writer of demonstrated intelligence. Hopefully, you’ll blog about it. The article is […]
Find the Old Man’s War Trade Paperback in the Wild: A Contest
Posted on December 14, 2005 14 Comments
At the doorstep today: The trade paperback edition of Old Man’s War, which looks excellent and smells like lilacs. All right, it doesn’t smell like lilacs, but it looks great and generally I’m extremely happy with it, although if you get it (or get it for someone else), I’d like to add a small caveat: […]
Mail Note
Posted on December 14, 2005 3 Comments
My host provider is having mail issues at the moment (the moment being about 12:30 Wednesday, 12/14/05), so if you’ve sent me mail in the last hour or so, I haven’t received it yet, nor will I be able to until they get it fixed. I’ll let y’all know when that happens. So, no, I’m […]
I Heart Instapundit, Part [Insert Large Number Here]
Posted on December 13, 2005 10 Comments
I suspect Glenn Reynolds should get a cut of my profits. At the very least, I’m going to buy him and the InstaWife a nice dinner when I see them. I suspect I owe a nice dinner to Steve Green, Stephen Bainbridge, Cory Doctorow and Eugene Volokh and their respective spouses/significant others as well. Maybe […]
Bragging, Geek Style
Posted on December 13, 2005 17 Comments
Just want you uber-geeks to know someone you know has received advanced review DVDs of both the latest season of Dr. Who and Red Dwarf Series 7. That is all.
The Little Things
Posted on December 12, 2005 12 Comments
For everyone who remembers or cares, yes, I did finally get Firefox 1.5 to work swimmingly on both my computers; it involved uninstalling Adblock and installing the most updated version. 1.5 doesn’t want to work with my WYSIWYG interface for Moveable Type, but I can live without that for a while. What I did miss […]
Ice Storm
Posted on December 12, 2005 15 Comments
We had an ice storm last night! And we also ran out of propane. What a lovely confluence of events. I could show you pictures of the Scalzi family shivering, but instead I’ll just show you pictures of the ice storm instead.
15 Things About Me and Writing
Posted on December 11, 2005 14 Comments
A variation of the meme in the entry immediately before this one. Naturally, if you’re a writer, feel free to do your own version of this. 1. The first time anyone told me specifically that I could write and should keep working at it was when I was in the sixth grade; it was my […]
15 Things About Me and Books
Posted on December 11, 2005 19 Comments
One of the few blog memes I’m actually interested in participating in. I’m snagging this from Mrissa. 1. I don’t remember not being able to read. Or more accurately, one of the very first memories I am sure about was reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I was about two at the […]
The War on Christmas Has Its Subversive Element
Posted on December 9, 2005 78 Comments
I see nothing in this year’s idiotic “War on Christmas” campaign that causes me to revise what I said on the subject last year. That said, but I will say that the news story about a bunch of “megachurches” being closed on Christmas day adds a certain zesty tang to the whole proceeding, doesn’t it? […]
Two Small Notes of a Literary Nature
Posted on December 9, 2005 3 Comments
And here they are: 1. Rick Kleffel interviews me over at The Agony Column about The Ghost Brigades, with side trips to other books and works. 2. We’ve decided on a tentative title for the collection of Whatever entries: Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: Selected Writings, 1998 – 2005. A tip of the hat […]
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